Executive director Michael E. Leeson sits on the board as an ex officio member. John France of Cal-Turf, Camarillo, is the associate member representative on the board and is also president of the associate member organization of the landscape group.

Head started Four Seasons Gardens in 1973 and the firm today is located on 37 acres in the Compton-Carson area of Southern Los Angeles County.

Among the few women in California to hold a landscape contractor's license, she is also part of the first husband and wife team to serve as president of the Sacramento-based group: Her husband, Henry Soto, general manager of Four Seasons Gardens, was the association's first vice president and second president in 1951-52.

Her father was head gardener and greens keeper for the Del Mar Turf Club and Race Track in the 1940s. She was the first woman on the board of the Los Angeles chapter of the association, serving as vice president in 1980.